Dr. Ute Wallenböck

Wissenschaftliche Tätigkeiten

• Seit Oktober 2024 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am IOA, Abt. für Mongolistik und Tibetstudien, Universität Bonn.
• 2019 –2024 Assistenzprofessorin für Sinologie, Masaryk Universität Brünn, Tschechien.
• 2019 –2022 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin & leitende Koordinatorin der Forschungsgruppe ‚Social Anthropology and Material Culture‘ im EU-Projekt “Sinophone Borderlands – interaction at the Edges”, Palacký Universität Olmütz, Tschechien. 
• 2016-2019 Lehrbeauftragte, Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften, Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde und/oder Institut für Geschichte (Globalgeschichte), Universität Wien, Österreich.
• 2013-2017 Universitätsassistentin (prae-doc), Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften/ Sinologie, Universität Wien, Österreich.
• 2012-2013 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im FWF Projekt “The Cultural History of the Western Himalaya from the 8th Century”, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Wien, Österreich.
• Seit 1995 zahlreiche Studien- und Forschungsaufenthalte in der VRChina, Taiwan und Indien.

Monographie

• Ute Wallenböck, Die Bevölkerung am Sino-Tibetischen Grenzgebiet. Identitätskonstruktion der Tibet-Mongolen. (Globalgeschichte und Global Studies, Vol. 1), Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2019.

Herausgeberschaften

• Jana Valtrová und Ute Wallenböck, Christian Missionary Perspectives on Food in Asia, (Special Issue), Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 31/2, 2023.
• Ute Wallenböck und Veronika Zikmundová, The Daur at the Sino-Russian Borderlands, Thematic Issue. Studia Orientalia Slovaca 20/1, 2021.
• Alfred Gerstl und Ute Wallenböck, Economic and Strategic Impacts of the Belt and Road Initiative on Central Eastern Europe, Central and Southeast Asia: Similarities and Differences, (Rethinking Asia and International Relations), Routledge, 2021.
• Ute Wallenböck, Bianca Horlemann und Jarmila Ptackova: Mapping Amdo: Dynamics of Power. Archív Orientální Supplementa, Prague: Oriental Institute CAS, 2019.

Artikel

• Ute Wallenböck, Balancing Development and Heritage Amid Climate Crises in Tibet, Institute of Security and Development Policy (ISDP) Voices 73, January 21, 2025. https://www.isdp.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Blog-73-Ute-final2.pdf
• Ute Wallenböck, Silencing Tibet: Xi Jinping’s Religious Diplomacy and its Implications for the Himalayan Region, Mapping China’s Himalayan Hustle. Revisionism Resistance Must be the Order of the Region, edited by Jagannath Panda, Institute of Security and Development Policy (ISDP). November 2024 pp.104-108.
• Ute Wallenböck, Die tibetische Küche und Momo als Kulturgut in der Diaspora, Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde. Heft 2/2023, pp. 73-91.
• Ute Wallenböck und Veronika Zikmundová, Christian Missionaries’ Ethnographic Accounts of Diets and Foodways in the Area of Kokonor during the late 19th Century and Early Republican Time, Religio: Revue pro religionistiku 31/2, 2023, pp. 259-279.
• Julie Yu-Wen Chen und Ute Wallenböck, Reincarnation System of Living Buddhas: A Taiwanese Perspective, Special Issue: Post-Dalai Lama Contingencies: 20th National Congress of the CCP and China- India Dynamics", Institute of Security and Development Policy (ISDP). May 2023, pp. 62-67.
• Ute Wallenböck und Shurentana Borgjigin, Sino-Mongolische Beziehungen: Abhängigkeit der Mongolei von China? Armis et Litteris, Schriftenreihe der Theresianischen Militärakademie. Zentralasien im Spannungsfeld der Interessen Russlands und der VR China. Theresianische Militärakademie, 2022, pp.147-165.
• Ute Wallenböck, Memory and Identity: Tashi Tsering, the Last Qinwang South of the Yellow River. Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology, vol. 21. no. 10, Oriental Studies, 2022, pp.50-61. DOI 10.25205/1818-7919-2022-21-10- 50-61.
• Ute Wallenböck und Veronika Zikmundová, The Daur at the Sino-Russian Borderlands: A Brief Introduction. The Daur at the Sino-Russian Borderlands. Studia Orientalia Slovaca 20/1, 2021, pp.1- 45.
• Alfred Gerstl und Ute Wallenböck, Introduction: Making Analytic Sense of the Belt and Road Initiative – A Plea for Multi- and Trans-Disciplinary Approaches and Eclecticism. In: Gerstl, A., and Wallenböck, U., Economic and Strategic Impacts of the Belt and Road Initiative on Central Eastern Europe, Central and Southeast Asia: Similarities and Differences, (Rethinking Asia and International Relations), Routledge, 2021, pp.1-20.
• Ute Wallenböck, Gengya Drakkar (rGan gya brag dkar)—Its Significance as a Place of Pilgrimage and as Sacred Natural Site. In: Wallenböck, U., Horlemann, B. und Ptackova, J. (eds.), Mapping Amdo: Dynamics of Power. Archív Orientální Supplementa. Prague: Oriental Institute CAS, 2019. pp.133-158.
• Ute Wallenböck, Gtsang A rig – A Tibetan tribe classified as Mongols. In: Ptackova, J. und Zenz, A. (eds.). Mapping Amdo: Dynamics of Change. Archív Orientální Supplementa X. Prague: Oriental Institute CAS, 2017, pp.185-210.

Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (CCKF), Tibetans in Taiwan: Food and Identity in a Historical and Contemporaneous Context (01.2024- 12. 2025).

Eingeladene Vorträge

• Food and Identity: Tibetan Ethnic Representation in Taiwan, invited lecture, Taiwan lecture series, Comenius University Bratislava, October 30, 2024.
• The Reinvention of Mongolness at the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands, Invited Lecture, International Center for Cultural Studies at the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Hsinchu, März 6, 2024.
• Identification through food: Tibetan Momo in the Diaspora, Invited Lecture, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Februar 26, 2024.
• Tibetan “Momo” - A Cultural Asset in the Diaspora, Tibetan & Himalaya Studies Lecture Series, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, April 26, 2023.
• Tibetan Food(s) and Identity in a Global Context, University of Helsinki, Department of Chinese Studies. [Online], Juni 9, 2021.

(Ausgewählte aktuellere) Konferenzpräsentationen

• Tibetan Muslims: A Neglected Minority in the Pursuit of Identity and Citizenship, BCDSS conference, “Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies: Perspectives from Asia, Past and Present,” University of Bonn, May 7, 2025. 
• From Pilgrimage to ‘Exile’: The Journey of China’s Tibetan Muslims to Saudi Arabia after 1949, University of Bonn, December 13, 2024.
• Tsampa: Tibetan non-violent resistance through food, European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS), Tallinn, August 27-30, 2024.
• Hybridization of Tibetan Buddhist Practices in Taiwan: Cross Cultures, (religious) Adaptation and Influences? Gemeinsam mit Dolma Tsering (NYCU), 10th International Conference on Language, Culture, and Mind: Celebrating Linguistic and Cultural Diversity, Masaryk University Brno, 11-14 July 2024.
• Tibetans in Taiwan: Food and Negotiation of Belonging, European Association of Taiwan Studies, Wien, April 5, 2024.
• Continuity and Change in Foodways among the Tibetan Diaspora in Switzerland, Workshop “Tibetanness Outside Tibet”, Paris, Oktober 19-21, 2023.
• Food in contemporary Amdo – invented traditions?, 4th Amdo Research Network Workshop, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Oktober 4-7, 2023.
• A Tibetan-Mongol Interface: Diets and Foodways in the Area of Kokonor, The Mongols: Tradition and Modernity. Mongolian communities and their neighbours facing global and local challenges: Strategies, responses, perspectives, University of Tartu, März 24-26, 2023.
• Tsampa –Food for Gods and Humans, Food for the Gods in the Himalaya Region, Universität Wien, Dezember 14, 2022.
• Food as an Identity Marker of Tibetanness. 15th Seminar of the International Association of Tibetan Studies (IATS), Prag, Juli 3-9, 2022.